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      <img src="../logo.svg" class="logo" alt=""><h1>like fixcolnames(), a helper function to rename variables that are colnames of data.frame</h1>
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    <p>Changes column names to R variable names from original API names in FTP site file</p>
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    <div class="sourceCode"><pre class="sourceCode r"><code><span><span class="fu">fixnames</span><span class="op">(</span><span class="va">namesnow</span>, oldtype <span class="op">=</span> <span class="st">"api"</span>, newtype <span class="op">=</span> <span class="st">"r"</span>, <span class="va">mapping_for_names</span><span class="op">)</span></span></code></pre></div>
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<dl><dt id="arg-namesnow">namesnow<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-namesnow"></a></dt>
<dd><p>vector of colnames (but can be a data.frame or data.table too)</p></dd>


<dt id="arg-oldtype">oldtype<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-oldtype"></a></dt>
<dd><p>friendly or long or original, or csv or r or api</p></dd>


<dt id="arg-newtype">newtype<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-newtype"></a></dt>
<dd><p>friendly or long or original, or csv or r or api</p></dd>


<dt id="arg-mapping-for-names">mapping_for_names<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#arg-mapping-for-names"></a></dt>
<dd><p>data.frame passed to <code>fixnames()</code> to do the work.</p></dd>

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    <h2 id="value">Value<a class="anchor" aria-label="anchor" href="#value"></a></h2>
    <p>Vector or new column names same length as input.
The function does NOT return an entire renamed df or dt. Just the new colnames are returned.</p>
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    <p>YOU CAN SPECIFY A TYPE USING AN ALIAS LIKE
"api" or "long" UNLIKE IN <code><a href="fixnames_to_type.html">fixnames_to_type()</a></code> where
you had to specify the actual colnames of map_headernames, like "apiname"</p>
<p>NOTE: If you happen to pass the entire data.frame or data.table to this function,
instead of passing just the colnames, this function will see that and still
return just a vector of new colnames</p>
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    <div class="dont-index"><p><code><a href="varinfo.html">varinfo()</a></code>  <code><a href="fixnames_to_type.html">fixnames_to_type()</a></code> <code><a href="fixcolnames.html">fixcolnames()</a></code> <code>fixnames()</code></p></div>
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